Book Quote by James Purdy

I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around…

— Victoria Chang

“It's the whole country that makes or breaks a thing like this. New York has very little to do with it. Now if it…

— William Dean Howells

“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the Internet was…

— Gillian Flynn

A [New Yorker ] is what it has always been. It combines those who pursue the truth with those who pursue the rewards of…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

New York is all about sort of a corporate sensibility, and it is squeezed out room for any other kind of sensibility, money talks,…

— Chris Noth

The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book…

— Mary H.K. Choi

If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

— James M. Cain

“The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides…

— Tom Wolfe

There's no doubt that New York held its temptations for any writer - it still does.

— Adrian Dunbar

“but the fact is that New York is as much a myth as a place, and because we all participate in that fiction, we…

— Siri Hustvedt

New York is great for writers insofar as you can pay someone to bring you food, to take your washing out and bring it…

— Nick Laird

A lot of writers choose to live in New York, partly because of the literary culture here, and partly because Brooklyn's a pretty nice…

— Chad Harbach